Space-Time may be one of the most confusing areas in physics today. Einstein's Theory of Relativity helps explain it a bit. Space and time are interlaced with each other. Take yourself, for example. You take up an area in space, and a slot in time. When you move through space, you are also moving through time, because time is always ticking. It has been theorized that the Space-Time continuum is curved. This is due to the influence that mass has on time. Maybe this physlet will help you understand things just a little bit better. Before Einstein, physical space was perceived as being flat. After Einstein linked space and time together, people saw it as being four dimensional, with an actual curvature to its structure. Think about the top of a cherry pie and how it is interlaced like a woven basket. Now envision Earth as a basketball. Set the basketball on the interlaced crust, Space-Time, and you have Earth taking up a part of space and time. This is a very difficult topic to explain and also grasp because many of the people studying it are exploring new, uncharted territories. More will be added upon further discovery of new information.
Space Time
Space-Time may be one of the most confusing areas in physics today. Einstein's Theory of Relativity helps explain it a bit. Space and time are interlaced with each other. Take yourself, for example. You take up an area in space, and a slot in time. When you move through space, you are also moving through time, because time is always ticking. It has been theorized that the Space-Time continuum is curved. This is due to the influence that mass has on time. Maybe this physlet will help you understand things just a little bit better. Before Einstein, physical space was perceived as being flat. After Einstein linked space and time together, people saw it as being four dimensional, with an actual curvature to its structure. Think about the top of a cherry pie and how it is interlaced like a woven basket. Now envision Earth as a basketball. Set the basketball on the interlaced crust, Space-Time, and you have Earth taking up a part of space and time. This is a very difficult topic to explain and also grasp because many of the people studying it are exploring new, uncharted territories. More will be added upon further discovery of new information.